Company sees double-digit growth as buyers and
sellers tap applications and business network to digitize and make
procurement awesome
The world’s largest business network continues to get bigger as
buyers and sellers around the world embrace offerings from SAP
Ariba to digitize and make procurement awesome. During the second
quarter ended June 30, new cloud bookings at SAP were up 33
percent. And SAP Ariba was a key contributor to the strong results,
posting double-digit growth in its new cloud bookings.
“Procurement today is about supporting the business better by
being more agile, making the buying experience simple and
automating business-to-business commerce wherever possible,” said
Alex Atzberger, President, SAP Ariba. “This can’t be done by
stitching together point solutions designed only to cut costs.
What’s required is an integrated, end-to-end offering that combines
the convenience and agility of cloud applications with the strength
of enterprise applications and connectivity, intelligence and
global reach of an open business network.”
Powering Procurement Around the World
This is exactly what SAP Ariba delivers. And in the last
quarter, global companies of all sizes signed up to use the
company’s offerings to manage their spend across all categories –
including direct, indirect, contingent labor and services - and
reap the benefits they can provide.
“Green Cross has decided to deploy an integrated procurement
strategy in order to accomplish process improvement and
innovation,” says Ryu Man-Kyu, Associate Director of Purchasing at
Green Cross Corporation, an aspiring leader in the global
bioengineering industry headquartered in Korea. “With SAP Ariba’s
innovative technology and business network, we can fuel a simple,
transparent procurement process that delivers market
advantage.”
“We chose SAP Ariba because the suite of modules provide highly
integrated solutions that allow NS Brands to scale procurement
activities while controlling spend, automating invoicing and
contracts, as well as more effectively managing procurement
requests from multiple sourcing locations,” said Matt Volker, Vice
President Supply Chain; NS Brands, Ltd., a San Antonio, TX - based
vertically integrated operation for premium produce varietals.
In North America, more than 3 million new subscribers embraced
SAP Ariba’s guided buying capabilities, a market-leading innovation
through which procurement organizations can create a contextual
experience that automatically leads users to the goods and services
they need to do their jobs, then guides them through buying them in
compliance with company policies and processes.
In the Middle East, Saudi Aramco announced plans to launch a
digital business marketplace using SAP Ariba solutions that will
allow the company to connect, collaborate and manage transactions
with thousands of global suppliers.
In Latin America, LATAM Airlines Group will leverage the Ariba
Network to reach more suppliers and integrate SAP Ariba’s
cloud-based applications with its ERP system to create a
best-in-class procurement process through which it can reduce its
operating expenses and improve results. And the Boticario Group,
the third biggest Brazilian cosmetic company and the largest
cosmetic franchise in the world, will use a range of SAP Ariba
solutions to simplify its retail business.
They are joined by Fujitsu, Otsuka Pharma and Swiss Post in
Europe, Hong Kong Electric in Greater China and many other buying
organizations around the world.
Making Commerce Happen
Suppliers got in the game too, with more than 165,000 selling
organizations – or more than one per minute – choosing to connect
to the Ariba® Network. Why? Because it’s where global commerce is
actually happening. In the last three months, nearly 3,000
opportunities worth more than $611 million were posted through SAP
Ariba Discovery™ and the amount of commerce transacted on the
network on annual basis soared to nearly $1 trillion. If the Ariba
Network were a country, it would be among the top ten in Gross
Domestic Product.
“At SAP Ariba, we are inspired by our customers who share our
vision to make procurement awesome,” Atzberger said, “Leading
companies around the world have fully embraced digital procurement
and we are fully invested in delivering innovative solutions
powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning that enable
them to transform procurement today and in the future.”
To learn more about SAP Ariba’s solutions and how they are
helping to make procurement awesome, visit www.ariba.com.
About SAP Ariba
SAP Ariba is how companies connect to get business done. On the
Ariba Network, buyers and suppliers from more than 2.8 million
companies and 190 countries discover new opportunities, collaborate
on transactions and grow their relationships. Buyers can manage the
entire purchasing process, while controlling spending, finding new
sources of savings and building a healthy supply chain. And
suppliers can connect with profitable customers and efficiently
scale existing relationships – simplifying sales cycles and
improving cash control along the way. The result is a dynamic,
digital marketplace, where nearly $1 trillion in commerce gets done
every year.
To learn more about SAP Ariba, visit www.ariba.com.
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back office to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to
mobile device – SAP empowers people and organizations to work
together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively
to stay ahead of the competition. SAP applications and services
enable approximately 355,000 customers to operate profitably, adapt
continuously, and grow sustainably. For more information, visit
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